Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 27
‘Yes, sir, I will soon serve up,’ answered Gretel.
Who acts: I · What happens: serve up, answer · To what, where: Gretel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 serve | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 serve | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 serve | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 serve | aux |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 serve | advmod |
| 9 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 serve | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 serve | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 serve | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve up | future | I | soon property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Gretel | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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